Audit Criticizes Hiring at City Housing Authority

More Jobs for Low-Income Workers Urged; Agency Defends Record

An audit by the city comptroller's office found that the New York City Housing Authority failed to ensure that its construction contractors hired public-housing residents and other low-income New Yorkers, as federal law required.

As a result, low-income New Yorkers lost out on hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential wages, according to the...